Device for supporting and delivering paper for wrapping or bundling purposes.



No. 830,206. PATENTED SEPT. 4, 1906.

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UNITED srng ns PATEnT OFFICE.

REUBEN H. CHASE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING A'NDDELIVERING PAPER FOR WRAPPING R BUNDLING PURPOSES.

- citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county ofSuffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement inDevices for Supporting and Delivering Paper 'for Wrapping or BundlingPurposes, of which the following description, in connection with theaccompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on thedrawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of an improvedapparatus by which to deliver a gummed strip in any desired length to beused for wrapping bundles, the

strip being employed instead of usual string or india-rubber bands.

The particular features of which my invention consists will behereinafter described, and fully pointed out in the claims at the end ofthis specification.

Figure 1 in side elevation, the liquid-containing box being in section,illustrates an apparatus embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a somewhatenlarged section of the moistening means, and Fig. 3 shows the end ofone of the tie-rods.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a base-plate or bed, to which issecured a standard A of any suitable shape, that supports a casing A thestandard having a central stud that rece'ves over it-a roll of paper B,preferably on a wooden spool B. The stud is of suificient length toreceive a plurality of spools, each spool containing, it may be, agummed strip of paper of a definite width, the width of the two stripsvarying.

When a plurality of rolls of paper are used, I separate the rolls bymeans of a disk (1 also sustained by the stud and I apply a second disk0 to the outer side of the outermost roll of paper, securing the same bymeans of a thumb-nut a or otherwise. The casing has a mouth a throughwhich the gummed strip is led to the moistening device, to be described.The rotation of the disks a and a is restrained by means of adisk-locking device a;

At or near the end of the base I erect suitable standards for sustainingthe moistening means. The standards herein shown comprise two sideplates C, represented as flanged outwardly at their lower ends andconnected to the base by screws 0. The side plates are connected rigidlyby means of tie-rods 2, 3, 4, and 5. These tie-rods consist of piecesofSpecification of Letters Patent.

Application-filed December 14, 1904. Serial No. 236,800.

Patented Sept. 4, 1906.

REISSUED metal shouldered at or near one end, as at c, Fig. 3, andthreaded to receive suitable nuts 6, the shoulders of the rods abuttingthe inner sides of the standards, as shown.

Above the tie-rod 2 I have. mounted a stripsustaining rod 7, it beingprovided, as represented, with a loose washer adjustable longitudinallythereon, so that it may be moved on the red at an T desired distancefrom its end to thus accommodate a lurality of strips, the contiguousedges of t e strips abuttin the sides of the washer. The gummee strip,with its gummed side uppermost, is led over the rod ,7 behind or to theleft of the rod 2, thence across the rod 3 and under a roller 8. The rod3 is so located with relation to the rod 2 and roller 8 that the gummedand still'ened strip is bent as it travels between 'the rod 2 androllerS, andthis bond serves to give the strip a tendency to drop upon the rod4, and, further, the rod 3, when the strip is released after the samehas been cut oil', prevents the movement of the strip too far to thelelt, viewing Fig. 2, and

therod 2 at the other side of the strip prevents the approach ol' thestrip toward the moistening device when the strip is cut off. The freeend of the strip normally drops on the tie-rod 4, which constitutes astrip-sup port for the strip back ol its free end.

The bed at its end and at one side of the stand referred to has securedthereto a stripcutter D, shown as a toothed piece of metal, which isherein represented as secured to the bed by some of the screws employedfor securing the standard to the bed. The upper ends of the standardshave connected to them by screws 10 and 12 the part of the bottom plate(Z of the tank (1 which contains the water to be delivered to thefibrous covering (1* of the moistening-device.

The interior of the box has a tube (1 that receives the stem of what Ishall designate a needle-valve d", it having a threaded shank and atapering point, the rotation of the stem leaving more or less spaceabout the tapering point to control the amount of water to drop throughthe tube onto a sponge df, which is deposited in a U-shaped troughforming the body of the moistening device. The body of the moisteningdevice at its lower side has a series of fine holes It, so that thewater which is permitted to drop through the needle-valve onto thesponge may be no given up slowly and flow through saidholes and enterthe fibrous covering d applied to the exterior of the body of themoistening device. The fibrous material is clamped to the body of themoistening device by cleats 14, held by screws 1 5. The upper part ofthe body of the moistening device is represented as having out-flaringlips 16 that enter guideways formed at the under side of the tank, sothat the moistening device may be withdrawn from the apparatus wheneverit is desired. The upper end of the needle-valve is extended through thetank-cover d and is readily accessible to the hand of the user, and thecover may be raised Whenever it is desired to supply water to the tank.

Fig. 1, in full lines, shows the apparatus in its normal condition. Aclerk or other person bein desirous of wrapping a bundle will en age thefree end of the gummed paper and wiIl push the same backwardly a little,as indicated by dotted lines, Fi 1, and will then raise the strip,putting t e gummed side thereof close to the point where the thumb andforefinger are holding the strip against the moistened under side of thefibrous covering of the moistening device and will pull the stripupwardly in the direction of the dotted line 20, pulling off more orless of the strip according to the size of the bundle to be wrapped-,andwhen the strip has been pulled off for the desired length the clerk willdrop the same into the dotted-line position 21 and will cut off thestrip by the lower knife. In some instances, however, it will bedesirable to cut off the strip by an upward movement, and in such eventI have provided the top of the stand with a second or auxiliarycuttingplate 6, shown as a saw-toothed piece of metal held in positionby screws 12.

Prior to my invention I am not aware that a gummed strip has ever beendrawn from a roll underneath a moistening device to moisten the gummedside of the strip and thereafter cut ofi the strip. When the strip iscut off by the lowermost cutting device, the dry end of the stripremains in position on the strip sustaining rod 4. If, however, thestrip is cut off by an upward movement, then the strip immediately dropson said rod, due to its weight and gravity.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In apparatus of the class described, a tank, a moistening devicelocated below said tank, a plurality of rods between and over which todraw a strip on its way to be acted upon by the moisteningl device,means for cutting off the moistene strip, and a device to sustain theend of the strip below and out of contact with the moistening device.

.2. In apparatus of the class described, a tank, a moistening devicetherebelow having an exterior fibrous covering, rods over which thestrip to be moistened is drawn, and means for cutting off the moistenedstri 3. In apparatus of the class described, a tank, a moistening devicetherebelow having an exterior fibrous covering, and a sponge located insaid moistening device, rods over which the strip to be moistened isdrawn, and means for cutting oif the moistened strip.

4. In apparatus of the class described, a tank having means such as aneedle-valve to control the outflow of water therefrom, a non-rotatablemoistenin device therebelow presenting a series of perfiorations in itsbody, and an exterior textile cover.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

REUBEN H. CHASE.

IVitnesses:

(3120. W. GREGORY, MARGARET A. DUNN.

